Well-Architected: A Guide to Cost Optimisation
As you’re already very much aware, Cost Optimisation isn’t a one-off checklist item that one can ‘fire-and-forget’. It’s an ongoing, repeated process. And that can be a chore, especially if you’re the only one driving it. But what about a more proactive approach to Cost Optimisation? How can we apply an attitude of continual improvement…
Securing Human & Application Identity in AWS
Introduction Identity management is central to every workload running in AWS. Every time a page in the AWS console is visited, dozens of checks are being made via the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service to ensure the person behind the keyboard is both authenticated and authorised to view the information they’re requesting. The same…
Why it’s Time to Say Goodbye to Jenkins
A background to Jenkins Like many engineers, if you’ve been around the block a few times you will have at the very least stumbled across Jenkins (or if you are as old as I am, you will remember the days of Hudson). For those that haven’t, Jenkins is a “leading open-source automation server”, supporting a…
Skills for Growth: Making the most of AWS with Ubertas Consulting
Join our expert Solution Architects in a regular series of insightful webinars cutting across key areas within AWS to accelerate you on your journey to making the most of the cloud. Running regularly with varied topics being discussed each month, you’ll learn a lot about AWS in a short space of time. Ubertas Consulting are…
Common AWS Database Migration Tools
Ubertas Consulting has helped many companies migrate from cloud and on-premises to AWS over the years. Typically, the most complicated aspect of any migration is its databases. This complexity usually occurs for three reasons: To combat these issues, we leverage two main AWS migration services: AWS Schema Conversion Tool The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) can…
5 Common Migration Mistakes
As an AWS Partner, we regularly assist customers looking to migrate their workloads – either from on-premise or from another cloud provider. While no two customers or migration projects are truly alike, there are some agonisingly common pain points. We feel these ought to be shared for the benefit of migration first-timers, as well as…
Migrating to AWS: What is Well-Architected and Why Does it Matter?
Having recently completed a major Microsoft migration to AWS, we have taken the time to reflect upon the role that the Well-Architected Framework played during that engagement. AWS Well-Architected is a framework for deploying and operating in the cloud. The framework is often used to review existing cloud operating environments and provide a much-needed benchmark…
Migrating to AWS: Understanding Migration Patterns and Why They Matter
Moving production workloads to the cloud is complicated, and no single migration to AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the same as the next. At Ubertas Consulting, we know this from our own experience, the hard lessons learned, and our numerous success stories combined. When planning migrations, we often talk about “Migration Patterns,” why they matter…
Migrating to AWS: What is a Landing Zone and Why is it Essential to Success?
Having assisted hundreds of customers in the last 3 years, we have discovered a recurring theme: organisations are commonly finding themselves in difficulty, following what they previously considered to be a “successful” migration to the Cloud. Occasionally, this occurs immediately after go-live. Perhaps more concerning is that we have found a growing number of customers…
Modernisation: Monoliths to Microservices Using AWS App Mesh
In the latest entry to our Modernisation Blog series, Solutions Architect Jim Wood performs a high-level comparison of monoliths vs microservices, before exploring some of the ways in which App Mesh makes managing microservices easier. Let’s get started! Monoliths Unless you’ve been living in the dark ages, chances are you already know what a monolith…